CULTURE
Japan Isn’t a Painting in a Museum
Why Westerners who treat Japanese culture as a finished, unchanging product need to learn more about Japanese history - and about life…
immigration
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CULTURE
HISTORY
When Japan Ruled the Waves: The Forgotten Colonies of Micronesia
How Japan defeated the German Empire in World War I and ruled over Micronesia for three decades - before it all came…
SOCIETY
Anti-Police Brutality Protests Break Out in Tokyo
As people protest police violence worldwide, protesters in Japan also rally around a Kurdish national whose assault by officers shocked many.
POLITICS
The Young, Immigrants Targeted in Japan’s COVID-19 Crisis
As Japan's COVID-19 crisis escalates, its youth and foreign residents become targets of right-wing politicians and the country's mass media.
SOCIETY
Community Restores Defaced Japanese Incarceration Memorial at US College
An act of censorship by a high-ranking college administrator caused outrage in a Seattle-area community - and brought attention to the area's…
FEATURED
Why Some Westerners in Japan Never Learn Japanese
How a casual tweet promoting an author's new book about Japan blew up into a discussion of Western privilege and Orientalism.
SOCIETY
De-Population in Japan: No Easy Fixes?
The continued downward spiral of Japan’s population hasn't been helped by the slowdown in the Japanese economy. Emma Ford combines personal experience…